From en.wiktionary.org:
[cakë]
** English
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*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en] (compare [no], Icelandic/Swedish [sv], Danish [da]),
from [en], of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with [en]. Perhaps
related to [en], [en], and [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [kāk] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A rich , sweet dessert food , typically made of flour , sugar [,] and eggs and baked in an oven , and often covered in icing . < !--encyclopedic info, and definitions of other words! A gâteau or sponge cake includes a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy. The denser torte omits the leavening agent, and uses less flour and more eggs.-->
2. A small mass of baked dough , especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
3. A thin wafer -shaped mass of fried batter ; a griddlecake or pancake .
4. A block of any various dense materials.
5. * [1]
6. [en] [en] : a trivial ly easy task or responsibility .
7. * [en]
8. [en] Money .
9. [Used to describe the doctrine of having one's CAKE and eating it too .]
10. * 2018 , The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018
11. *: "It looks like the CAKE [ and eat it ] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk .
12. [en] A pair of buttock s, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full .
13. [en] A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tube s, each with a fireworks effect , lit by a single fuse .
**** Usage notes
[U:en:biscuits and cookies]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|7 Up cake |ague-cake |Alabama Lane cake|lolly cake |angel cake |angel
food cake,angel-food cake,angel's food cake,angel's-food cake |apple
cake|nappy cake|chocolate lava cake,chocolate-lava cake|molten chocolate
cake,molten-chocolate cake|Victoria sponge cake |applesauce cake
|ash-cake,ashcake,ash cake |ash-heap-cake |baby cake |baked in the cake
|banana cake |Banbury cake |barm cake,barmcake |bastable cake |Battenberg cake
|battercake,batter-cake |beancake,bean-cake,bean cake |beefcake |birthday
cake||butter cake|cake day|cake-and-arse party|clay cake|confetti cake|wall
cake |black cake |black forest cake,Black Forest cake |Black Joe cake
|blackout cake |bread cake,breadcake|cake and gingerbread|red tortoise cake
|bridecake,bride-cake |Brooklyn blackout cake,Brooklyn Blackout cake |bubble
cake |buckwheat cake |bundt cake |butterfly cake |cakeage |cake and arse party
|cake and wine|yeast cake |cakebaker |cake ball |cake bar |cakebox |cake boy
|cake-bread |cakecrumb |cake crumbs |cake-eater |cakefetti |cake fork |cakeful
|cake-fumbler |cakehole |cakehouse |cake-house |cakeism |cakeist |cakeless
|cakelet |cake lifter |cakelike |cakemaker |cakemaking |cakeman |cake-meal
|cake mix |cake mold |cake number |cakepan |cake plate |cake-pop |cake pop
|caker |cake ring |cakery |cake saffron |cakes and ale |cakes and cheese |cake
server |cake shop |cakeshop |cakesicle |cake-slice,cake slice |cake smash
|cakestand |cake tin |cakette |cake urchin |cake-urchin |cakewalk |cake walk
|cake-walk |cakewalker |cakewards |cakewoman |caking |caky |carcake |carrot
cake |cattle cake,cattle-cake |cheesecake |cherry cake |cherry on the cake
|chess cake |chiffon cake |chimney cake |chocolate cake |chocolate fudge cake
|chocolate sponge cake |Chorley cake |Christmas cake |ciba cake |clam cake
|clapcake |coffee and cake |coffee cake |coffeecake |confetti cake |corn-cake
|corncake |cotton-cake |crab cake |crazy cake |cream cake |crumb cake |crum
cake |cupcake |cut cake |dairy cake |dead cake |deadcake |Depression cake
|desert fruit cake |devil's food cake,devil's-food cake |diaper cake |dirt
cake |doberge cake |Doberge cake |Dolly Varden cake |donut cake |dripping cake
|drop cake,drop-cake |dumb cake |dump cake |Dundee cake |easy as cake |eat
one's cake and have it too |Eccles cake |epiphany cake |every cake has its
fellow |every cake has its make |every cake has its mate |fair cake-cutting
|fairy cake |Fanta cake |fern cake |filter cake |fishcake |fish-cake |fish
cake |flannel cake |flat cake |friedcake |frosting on the cake |fruit-cake
|fruit cake |fruitcake |fuckcake |fudge cake |funnel cake |Genoa cake |German
chocolate cake |go like hot cakes |gooey butter cake |grater cake |green tea
cake |green-tea cake |griddle-cake |griddle cake |groom's cake |guess cake
|gur cake |have one's cake and eat it,have one's cake and eat it too
|haver-cake |heart cake,heart-cake |heavy cake |hevva cake |hoecake |honeycake
|hot cake |hot-milk cake,hot milk cake |icebox cake |icing on the cake
|illusion cake |Jaffa cake |Japanese cake |jelly cake |Johnny cake,johnny
cake,jonny cake,journey-cake |Kendal mint cake |Kiev cake |King Alfred's cake
([Daldinia concentrica]) |king cake,king's cake,kings' cake |kitchen cake
|knead-cake |kokosh cake |Lady Baltimore cake |Land of Cakes |Lane cake |lardy
cake |lava cake |layer cake,layer-cake |layer-cake federalism |layer cake
federalism |linseed cake |Lord Baltimore cake |Madeira cake |maids of honour
cake |mangia-cake,mangia cake |marble cake |marble-cake federalism |marble
cake federalism |matrimonial cake |meatcake |mint cake |molten lava cake |moon
cake |mooncake |moon-cake |mothering-cake |mud cake |mug cake |national cake
|neem cake |nubcake |nutcake |nutty as a fruit cake |oatcake |oatmeal cake
|oil cake |oilcake |oilseed cake |one's cake is dough |opera cake |oyster cake
|pake |pancake |parliament cake,parliament-cake |pat-a-cake,patty-cake,patty
cake |pea cake,pea-cake |pepper cake |piecake |piecaken |piece of cake |pinch
cake |pineapple cake |pink velvet cake |placenta cake |plumcake,plum-cake
|pomfret-cake,pomfret cake |Pontefract cake |poor man's cake |pop out
cake,pop-out cake |potato cake |potcake |poundcake |pound cake |press cake
|princess cake |prize cake |queen-cake,queen cake |queen's cake |radish cake
|raindrop cake |rape cake,rape-cake |rat cake |red velvet cake,red-velvet cake
|rice cake |ring-cake |rock cake |rose-cake |rout-cake |rout cake |rum cake
|saffron cake |salt-cake |salt cake |sandwich cake |Savoy cake |scripture cake
|seblet cake |seed-cake |seedcake |seed cake |sell like hot cakes |seven-layer
cake |Shawnee cake |shear-cake |sheath cake |sheet cake |shortcake |Shrewsbury
cake |Shrove-cake |simnel cake |singing cake |slab cake |slice of the cake
|smash cake |Smith Island cake |soul cake |soul-cake |soycake |space cake
|spice-cake |spit cake |sponge cake |stottie cake |stotty cake |stripper cake
|suet cake |sugee cake |sunshine cake |sweetheart cake |take the cake |taro
cake |tattie cake,tatty cake |teacake,tea-cake |tharcake |tharf-cake |the cake
is a lie |three kings' cake |three-milk cake |tipsy cake |tough-cake |Tunis
cake |turnip cake |Twelfth-cake,Twelfth cake,twelfth cake |twelfth day
cake,twelfth-day cake |Twelfth-night cake |uncake |upside-down cake |urinal
cake |Victorian sponge cake |wacky cake |war cake |wastel cake
|wedding-cake,wedding cake |Welsh cake |wine cake |yam cake |yellowcake
|yellow cake |Yule cake |zebra cake }}
**** Descendants
[top3]
- [tpi]
- [sq]
- [ar]
- [as]
- [aot]
- [bn]
- [my]
- [yue]
- [ceb]
- [dv]
- [nl] [spelling pronunciation] , [nl] (also [nl] , older also [nl] , [nl] )
- [fj]
- [hif]
- [fr]
- [el]
- [gu]
- [afb]
- [ha]
- [acw]
- [hi]
- [iba]
- [id]
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [lo]
- [mzs]
- [ms]
- [ml]
- [mi]
- [na]
- [fa]
- [pt]
- [ro]
- [ru]
- [es]
- [sw]
- [ss]
- [tl]
- [th]
- [to]
- [tr]
- [ur]
- [vo]
- [xh]
- [yo]
- [zza]
- [zu]
[bottom]
From the plural _cakes_: [top3]
- [da]
- [de]
- [el]
- [no]
- [sv]
[bottom]
**** Translations
[type of sweet dessert]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Aleut: [ale]
- Amharic: [am]
- Antillean Creole: [gcf]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] [large] , [be] [small]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue] , [rue] , [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Cheyenne: [chy]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw] , [kw]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dongxiang: [sce]
- Dutch: [nl] [more elaborate, with cream or fruit] , [nl] [more sober] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] [large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake] , [fr] [small, individual cake]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] [large cake served in slices] , [it] [small, individual cake] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] [wedding]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mapudungun: [arn]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mongolian:
- Nauruan: [na]
- Navajo: [nv] , [nv] , [nv]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Old Prussian: [prg]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] [archaic]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] [Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader] , [rm] [Sutsilvan] , [rm] [Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran] , [rm] [Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader]
- Russian: [ru] [large cake served in slices] , [ru] [small, individual cake] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] [birthday or wedding cake] , [es] [Cuba, Panama] , [es] [Northeastern Spain] , [es] [Colombia] , [es] [Colombian Atlantic Coast] , [es] [Costa Rica] , [es] [Spain standard usage] , [es] [Argentina] , [es] [Panama]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] [large] , [uk] [small] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[small mass of baked dough]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Irish: [ga]
- Maori: [mi]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [soft] ; [fi] [solid]
- Irish: [ga]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[block of dense material]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [of soap] [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [rectangular] , [ru] [flat and round] , [ru] [of soap]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[trivially easy task or responsibility]
[slang: money]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: plump buttocks]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[multi-shot fireworks assembly]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Breton: [br] , [br] , [br]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- :Category:Cakes and pastries
[en] <!--Types of cake without “cake” in their name (e.g., “brownie”); similar
foods (e.g., “biscuit”); hyperonyms (e.g., “dessert”)--> {{col|en|title=See
also |biscuit |Black Forest gâteau |brownie |bun |cruller |crumpet |dessert
|donut |doughnut |éclair |flapjack |frangipane |gâteau |gugelhupf |jumbal
|koeksister |kruller |kuchen<!--this is used in English--> |kugelhopf
|kugelhupf |ladyfinger |lamington |Linzertorte |madeleine |muffin |parkin
|pastry |patisserie |petit four |pie |pikelet |pudding |rum baba |Sally Lunn
|scone |sponge |Swiss roll |tart |torte |Victoria sponge |yumyum }}
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
2. [en] To form into a cake, or mass.
3. [en] Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
4. * [passage=Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had CAKED , and was hard and dry upon our skin.]
**** Derived terms
- anticaking
- cake up
**** Translations
[to coat with a crust]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to form into a cake or mass]
- Finnish: [fi] [intransitive] , [fi] [transitive]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[to dry out and become hard]
- Irish: [ga]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [R:commons]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Albanian
*** Noun
[sq]
1. [sq]
** Ambonese Malay
*** Etymology
Compare to [max].
*** Verb
[abs]
1. [abs] to [en]
*** References
- [R:abs:Takaria; Pieter:1998]
** Dutch
[lang=nl]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl]. [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. pound cake
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Related terms
- [nl]
** Fijian
*** Etymology
From [fj] (compare with [mi], [sm], [to]), from [fj] (compare with [ilo] and
[tl]).
*** Adverb
[fj]
1. up
*** References
- [entry=cake]
- [heke]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [kèk]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. fruitcake ( _containing rum_ )
2. quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert)
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
**** Descendants
- [el]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
[enm] From [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[cakes]
1. A [en] [any sort of flat doughy food] :
1. [enm] A cake prepared to cure disease or illness .
2. [enm] A communion wafer .
2. [enm] A lump , boil , or ball .
**** Derived terms
- [enm]
**** Descendants
- [en] [see desc]
- [en-geo]
- [sco]
- [yol]
- [ga]
- [cy]
**** References
- [entry=cāke]
[enm]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es], from [es], from [es]. [es].
*** Pronunciation
[keic]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] ; fruitcake
**** Usage notes
[es-unadapted]
**** Related terms
{{col|es |cheesecake |cupcake |hotcake |mugcake |pancake }}
** Tocharian B
*** Etymology
From [txb].
*** Noun
[?]
1. river
**** References
- [R:txb:Adams]
[txb]